Malte Müller
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I know him by name and certainly saw some of the movies he scored but he is really a few blank spot to me. I think one of the composers I have nothing of.
Good grief, that sounds so much worse than here… Even the new roof the house right next to me (I live in a house block with three houses) was not that loud… I have one of the biggest constructions site on whole Hamburg around the corner half a kilometer where they build a new underground line. Gladly don’t notice much of it all… Some direct residents where offered hotels at some heavy phase even though…
Hopefully the at some time arriving new neighbour(s) above me are not that rumaging type…
Well, it would just repeat bits and pieces, perhaps some replies could be moved. But I might open a topic sometime, too 😉
Lots of live “musique concrete” currently over the day for about 1.5 weeks as the flat right above mine is renovated right now 😉
Since Spotify now also features lossless it may be another nail to the coffin of CDs and downloads… (We maybe should have our own topic about physical vs digital media instead of hijjacking topics ;-))
You can at least jump to the latest post in any topc directly on the left column. But I fear there is nothing available to jump to the latest post that was posted after you last visit. I don’t think that last visit info is even stored anywhere.
Okay, but isn’t having the latest topics on top basically providing that? Other than that we have nothing for that I fear.
I could possibly list the lastest replies itself like we do with comments. But that would not be user specific the latest since the last visit.
No one seemed to have missed it but we now have forum search form as the main one from the site header only searches the actual articles.
It lists full replies that contain the search term so can be a bit overwhelming.Graham’s post was a little confusing, but I’m pretty sure he meant a “new posts since the last time” function.
Okay, but isn’t having the latest topics on top basically providing that? Other than that we have nothing for that I fear.
Ah, that damm tinnitus…
I’ll try to write a more detailed post when I’ve finished, and there will probably be a review on the main site (not written by me!) soon.
A double review could also be interesting.
As for Smith, I’m aware of his earlier books (I don’t own them), but I wasn’t aware he was still active as a writer.
I haven’t read any of his. It’s on one of these todo lists “sometime”…
Woo-hoo, the Williams book has arrived! Can’t wait to delve in!
And how is it so far?
Seems Stephen C. Smith who previously wrote biographies of Herrmann and Steiner has a new book coming:
“Hitchcock and Herrmann: The Friendship and Film Scores That Changed Cinema”There is quite a bit of reverb, but done rather tastefully, I think. Spacious sound for spacious music.
I heard a few from that series although I only had one with music by Chaplin which sold many years ago. Recoding was okay but I could not stand that reverb.
I must say, I prefer Steiner’s KK sequel score “Son of Kong” over King Kong. It’s Stromberg album paired with The Most Dangerous Game is probably my favourite Steiner album.
For sure a good album and a suprising good sequel score I expected to be more a rehash than it is. Another Steiner score I like very much is THE ADVENTURES OF DON JUAN. The complete Tribute is nice but here I also find the Gerhardt suite beats it. Maybe because I knew it first…
PRINCE AND THE PAUPER is a great score as almost all Korngolds. I don’t know this album – isn’t this series a bit cursed by too much reverd on the recording? – but the later Tribute recording of Stromberg and Gerhardt recorded a nice suite on the Classic Film Score series, too.
Steiner can be a bit too routine but I like a lot scores of him. KING KONG and TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE are also favorites of mine. I have even two recording of KING KONG: THe older Fred Steiner one and the newer complete Marco Polo one with Stromberg. This one I like in more complete form. Interestingly I prefer the Gerhardt suite of TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE over the complete Stromberg recording. Steiner like often Waxman generally often works better in suites for I think.
Just realized that I have the Marco Polo recording of MARK TWAIN. Haven’t heard it for a while but remeber it as a nice score.
Always sad to hear. Although I like Supertramp I primarily know the “best of” only… And was not really aware of the issues between the two…
Never heard of Mark Hart before. I liked the first 3 albums of Crowded House a lot – stil listen to them occasionally – but after the 4th I lost track of them…
I still like them, but I guess few people nowadays bother, certainly no casual listeners.
Well, most are just “radio type listeners” that don’t care that much and just listen. I even know people that rarely listen to music over the day (of course on work you probably can’t generally) but even otherwise.
And of course we especially were within a super niche when I stared to dive in end of 80s/early 90s and we actually still are 😉
Yes, I know. For the fun of it I have looked up the German market values of 2024:
- 84.1% Digital
- 78.1% Streaming
- 1.6% Downloads
- 4.4% Other like ring tones, video streaming
- 15.9% Physical
- 8.7% CDs
- 6.4% LPs
- 0.4% physical various
- 0.4% Music bluray/dvd
But it requires a tolerance and love of the saxophone (which I thankfully have)
I do too. Never understood why people hate saxophone. Of course it can be annoying, just like almost any other like especially solo violin 😉
Yes. At least the teenagers I know don’t know artists or albums. They just now playlists. And they chose them by subject, title or recommendation.
Me too. But “collectors” were always in the minority. Many were just content with the radio and the random playlist is just the equivalent (even better probably as no annoying moderator ;-))
And I get it. Why make a B side if noone buys singles?
Probably becasue there were no “sides” even with CD singles anymore 😉 I also remember those maxi singles with extended or different versions. Now they just release the track on streaming and as a video on youtube.
The Coppolas are a dynasty. Various relatives appeared in Coppola’s movies like his sister Thalia Shire or daughter Sofia Coppola. His uncle Antonio Coppola was also a composer but not sure if they worked together.
Well, CDs niche within the niche for some time 😉 And not to speak of the prices… As long as thing are not streaming only and I at least can get a (lossless) download I am fine. But downloads are already a similar niche like CDs salewise…
Seems I haven’t seen and replied to some questions…!
What about sending regular updates about recent discussions to those who already are registered in the forum? For example once a week.
You can subscribe to the forum or individual topics on the top right corner. Then you should get mail notifications. I think you also get them if you started a topic.
Isn’t that what an “RSS feed” is (the orange icon up in the corner)? I think Malte knows.
RSS is not the same but can be used like that with an RSS reader (same for the RSS feed of posts on the site itself). It does not require registration as it is public for public content.
Is there a way to show the most recent posts at the top of the list? I thought that most message boards did that by default.
Actually that descending order is the default order for blogs and other general news sections but no forum I know does that. All use ascending order as that is the “discussion or reading order” of course. There is no setting for this.
On the forum page the topic with the latest reply will be at the top and on the right you can click on the date
There was once a video game composer – I don’t name here on purpose – who completely vanished because of some misbehaviour. Still like some of his scores from years ago.
(…) just indirectly support a cause by being hired to score a questionable film.
You could say a bit opportunistic and even thoughtless maybe depending on what it is and perhaps sometimes you don’t know when being hire how a films turns out… At least someone supporting a questionable film because he actually believes in it is technically consequent…
To everyone his or her sensitivities. But if that leads to forming an online mob (…)
Absolutely, I didn’t want to excuse such behaviour in any form. You can witness such behaviour on social media comments a lot as well…
And of course nostalgia can play a role, but that role isn’t limited to film music.
Certainly! And not even limited to music itself. I just stayed within our niche 😉
Favorite scores of his are AMERICAN BEAUTY (very original at the time, everybody copied it… quirky), SCENT OF A WOMAN, ANGELS IN AMERICA (one of his more dramatic scores, a great album), THE HORSE WHISPERER and MEET JOE BLACK.
Indeed, AMERICAN BEAUTY is a classic, SCENT OF A WOMAN and MEET JOE BLACK I have and I think I also liked. Really have to revisit those.
I think it’s sometimes a kind of nostalgia tied to when someone personally saw a movie was watched and its music heard. So even some bland score or film) can have a certain value to someone no one else can understand. And then add to that that tastes can be quite different, too. Probably I am too forgiving on some things 😉
Yeah, I agree. Probably a general problem with (die hard) fan bases in general that don’t like “their genre” to be critized.
According to Wikipedia plenty of usages and it mentions Vangelis and Richter and also Tangerine Dream:
The final section of Force Majeure by the electronic music group Tangerine Dream is built upon the later La Follia progression, and is specifically referenced in the fifth track from their 2014 work Josephine The Mouse Singer, titled “Arcangelo Corelli’s La Folia.” It is also used in the Taizé chant “Laudate Dominum.”[11] The main theme of Vangelis’ Conquest of Paradise resembles the rhythmic paradigm of la folia intentionally. The chord progression is also used in the Britney Spears song, Oops!… I Did It Again, 2000. The Folia is used extensively in Max Richter’s 2017 album Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works.[12]
I liked his Bond scores although probably not his best ones. I do like him but are not really fan. SHAWSHANK is one of the CDs I sold quite some years ago when I thought I needed to get rid of some I rarley listen too (yeah, what a joke and I regret having sold those…even back before streaming then it really wasn’t much…). I always like ROAD TO PERDITION because of those Irish/Celtic influences and ANGELS IN AMERICA. I have less than 50 scores and probably should review them again as I cannot say much about them right now…
- 84.1% Digital
